单词 | at daggers' points |
释义 | > as lemmasat daggers' points 2. figurative. daggers' drawing: the commencement of open hostilities. at (or to) daggers' drawing, now at daggers drawn: on (or to) the point of fighting or quarrelling; in a state of open hostility. Also (rarely) at daggers' points.at daggers drawn is found in 1668, but becomes usual only in 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 in strife1398 at traversc1448 at issue1474 at a strife1488 at variancea1535 at square1545 at (a) jar1552 at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at (a) mutiny1567 in (a) mutiny1567 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 loggerhead1831 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [adverb] at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 11v They..amonge themselues ar wonte to be at daggers drawing. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 That countrie was at defiaunce and daggers drawing with the lande of Græcia. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 19 The Grandees of the Court were com almost to daggers drawing. 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 214 Upon this Point, were they at Daggers-drawn with the Emperor. 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 232 A Quarrel in a Tavern, where all were at Daggers-drawing. 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 52 Three ladies..talked of for his second wife, all at daggers drawing with each other. 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 35 You will be at daggers-drawing..with every order..of persons in the town. 1837 Lady L. Stuart Introd. Anecdotes in Lett. & Wks. Lady M. W. Montagu's I. 77 This lady inherited such a share of her grandmother's imperial spirit, as to..insure daggers drawing as soon as it should find..opportunity to display itself. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 582 Five minutes hence we may be at daggers' points. 1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxiv. 257 Was Marston still at daggers drawn with his rich uncle? < as lemmas |
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